guns n roses

Could a mobile phone ban at gigs work? A couple of years ago, I went to see the Danish post-punk outfit Iceage play a gig. At the very front of the audience there was a man filming the performance with his phone. In the middle of a song,…

Retrospect is a series which takes a look at some of the most important albums of all time. This week, Barra Ó Súilleabháin examines the influence of Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction. A rented house in L.A on the same estate that…

Success, fame and glory are as elusive as a winning lottery ticket blown off Gladstone Gander’s fingers (wings?) by a freak whirlwind, picked in flight by a passing pelican and coughed onto your head while you’re sailing the Atlantic in an…